Smart Blogger

MAY 11, 2023

Persuade with powerful prose. Remove the fluff , add power words, and use metaphors to entertain and delight your readers. Get your creative juices flowing with these creative writing exercises. This will allow you to write in a distinctive voice and from a unique perspective.

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Smart Blogger

MARCH 8, 2023

The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.” One of the exquisite pleasures of writing… “I would write a book, or a short story, at least three times — once to understand it, the second time to improve the prose, and a third to compel it to say what it still must say. ” (Click to Tweet) — Sylvia Plath 10.

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Smart Blogger

MARCH 24, 2023

15+ Chiasmus Examples That’ll Add a Creative Edge to Your Writing The word chiasmus was originally Greek for “crossing” or “X-shaped.” She was witty, funny, and entertaining to watch. Here’s one: Emiliano Zapata said: “I’d rather die on my feet than live on my knees.” Easy enough, right? Let’s dive into a few more examples.

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ProBlogger

MARCH 29, 2015

You love prose, you love language, you love how a perfectly-constructed sentence can say so much more than just letters put in order. If you’re unlike me, however, you love to use lots of words, and write mountains of prose. Especially online, when blogs are creative outlets, and there are no restraints or word counts.

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Smart Blogger

AUGUST 26, 2023

Are you searching for short story ideas that ignite your creativity? Why Short Stories Matter A short story is a concise piece of prose that often centers around a singular event, theme, or character, offering a complete narrative experience in a limited number of words. So, are you curious about how story inspiration might strike you?

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The Creative Penn

APRIL 9, 2023

So I had to invent all of the other 10 children in my family to keep entertained. Because look, to be honest, this is the creative process, right? Merryn: Yeah, so writing plays is just kind of wonderfully different to writing prose, particularly fiction. So I think that is a big part of where my writing has come from.

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Smart Blogger

MARCH 9, 2023

They may “require” 5+ years of work experience, a Bachelor’s Degree in a specific field of study, or creative writing experience. They’re not simply trying to publish your beautiful prose or fluff-filled essays. Job ads often list many “requirements” that don’t actually matter.

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Smart Blogger

MARCH 9, 2023

It’s packed with examples from pop culture, sports, literature, and content marketing that’ll inspire you to infuse alliteration into your own creative writing. Alliterative children’s poetry and stories do more than simply teach phonics, entertain, or showcase snazzy and stylized repetition examples. Results vary!

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Income Diary

AUGUST 29, 2023

The constant pressure to stay creative, to keep producing fresh ideas is daunting. I often find myself in a creative rut, staring blankly at the screen, words just out of my grasp. Write them so they are in the tone of an “off the wall” creative type and in the fun style of copywriter Andre Chaperon. Not bad – not good either.

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Jane Friedman

JULY 26, 2023

So begins Ann Rice’s rollicking novel, and we quickly realize we are to be guided by an enormously entertaining and self-absorbed narrator with a sly sense of humor. This is a prose-killing mistake. Writing a compelling first-person novel requires creative ingenuity, extraordinary empathy, and, I believe, a boatload of courage.

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The Creative Penn

DECEMBER 5, 2022

How can you change your mindset to one of creative abundance and productivity? And I pretty much have never advertised The Creative Penn, and certainly not the podcast. And I have like a ratio in the back of my mind that I always keep too, that I try to entertain my followers a lot more than I sell to them. That was great.

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Smart Blogger

JUNE 17, 2024

Further Reading: 57 Metaphor Examples That’ll Pack Your Prose With Persuasion Using Symbolism Examples to Enrich Your Writing and Understanding The different symbolism examples above show the breadth of symbolism across different types of literature and entertainment, from classic stories to modern-day movies.

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ProBlogger

JANUARY 24, 2012

People don’t come to my books in order to learn anything: they come for entertainment and will desert me if I don’t satisfy their expectations. A recent guest-blogger on our own writing-related website made a big splash with an argument that alcohol could be used to promote creativity. I’m a novelist, after all.

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Smart Blogger

MARCH 3, 2023

It helps give your writing a more intriguing creative tone. But, they’re always entertaining. Songwriters turn to metaphors because it allows them to be more creative, expressive, and raw with their lyrics. You need your words to leap off the page and galvanize your readers into action. Here are a few lyric examples: 30.

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Jane Friedman

MARCH 16, 2023

Publishers seem convinced it’s not enough to distill research into well-written prose. As conduits for informing, convincing and entertaining us, stories trump facts every time. But creative writing doesn’t work that way. Readers want an intimate story, too. Like it or not, publishers may be right. So far, so good.

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Smart Blogger

MARCH 30, 2023

Do you need some pizazz for your prose? The children’s book series Captain Underpants uses a lot of toilet humor to entertain its target audience. You often see it on late-night talk shows that use political satire to entertain their audience. Are you looking for different types of humor to add a little wow! to your writing?

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The Creative Penn

DECEMBER 15, 2024

In the intro, HarperCollins CEO Brian Murray on audiobooks and AI [ TechCrunch ]; OpenAI's 12 days including Sora and o1 ; Google Notebook LM expansio n; How Creatives Might Survive and Thrive in a Post-Productivity World [ Monica Leonelle ]. Our job is to organize the information in a way that's memorable and entertaining.

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